Signals: Mysterious Objects - 25 Years of Hubert Bals Fund
Overview of films
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Mysterious Object at Noon
Various Thais are invited to tell an episodic story. We soon see aliens, flying balls and kidnappings. Funny, intelligent debut by Weerasethakul.
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A Poet
The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of s
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Japón
In the ambitious, stunning debut by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Post tenebras lux), a man leaves the city to die in a remote, majestic valley. The
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Life on a String
The world as imagined by two blind musicians. ‘The Holyman’, who is travelling through China with his acolyte Shi Tou, is waiting for a string to brea
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
Palestinian filmmaker Suleiman returns to Israel after years spent living abroad. We meet his family and friends in a series of often ironic scenes an
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Ana y los otros
A stunning Camila Toker plays a young woman who returns to her birthplace for the first time in years and seeks in vain the places, memories and intim
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La nuit
Quneitra on the Golan Heights was destroyed by Israel during the war with Syria in 1967. The father of Malas, a Palestinian freedom fighter, is buried
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On the Beat
Black comedy about the everyday conflict between tradition and progress in a Peking police station. An influx of semi-criminal newcomers from the coun
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Les silences du palais
The news of the death of Tunisian prince Sid’Ali takes Alia back to her childhood: she is the daughter of the prince’s favourite servant. While outsid
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The Blue Eyes of Yonta
In Guinea-Bissau, where the euphoria surrounding independence is gradually ebbing away, to be replaced by disappointment, a tragicomic love story unfo
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Few of Us
The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions and h
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Rapado
Wayward comedy that starts with a stolen moped and sneakers and a forged 100-peso note that no one will take. This precursor to the stream of independ